Public Libraries

Today I thought I would share how public libraries have blessed my life and the lives of others.  My mom taught me the joy of reading.  Since, I came from a single parent household, since money was tight family vacations were out of the question.  I came up with a solution that has carried with me through my adult life that I would enjoy the scenery of faraway places in the books I can read.  I enjoyed going to such states as Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii with the characters in the books I read.  I am grateful that my mom made sure that I had access to a public library in the town.  I would get books every Saturday and play The Oregon Trail on the old Apple Computers that had basic black and white text every week growing up.  Now with mom gone, I am carrying the tradition that she started.   I do what I can do my best to support my local libraries available to me especially the Urbana Free Library and The Champaign Douglass Branch Public Library.  I even help at the Urbana Free Library used book sales to help fund such things as the summer reading program.  The libraries are now becoming the social place in the community to keep the members of the community active together with such activities as an Adult Coloring Group that is held at the Rantoul Public Library and book clubs that is held by other libraries in the area.  What a great blessings libraries are.